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When I was young we read books like Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman, Neuromancer by William Gibson and So You Want to be a Mathematician by Paul Halmos. What books are popular with young technically minded people today?
1. chistev ◴[] No.46208223[source]
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
2. chasenjohnson ◴[] No.46208237[source]
I just got through Abundance by Ezra Klein and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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3. bcx76 ◴[] No.46208652[source]
Mostly the Kardashian book club recos. Learn video editing in 3 days etc.
4. andyjohnson0 ◴[] No.46210245[source]
I'm pretty technically minded, but first I should probably ask: what's the age cut-off for "young"?
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5. antinomicus ◴[] No.46210531[source]
Do you believe in his ideas? I think the abundist philosophy is a fake moustache and a coat of paint on third way neoliberalism, which has proven time and again to have utterly failed as a political strategy in our current era. Ezra Klein’s ideas mostly feel tired, recycled, boring, outdated, and rudderless. We need true labor reform in this country, not less regulations and more trust in “altruistic developers”.
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6. drdec ◴[] No.46211007[source]
My secret agenda is to get gift ideas for my college aged child
7. tptacek ◴[] No.46212984{3}[source]
Pretty rude response, right?
8. toomuchtodo ◴[] No.46214265[source]
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World